About the Author
Rev John F Tuohey, PhD. is a retired priest of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, ordained in 1981 after completing his studies at the American College of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He successfully defended his PhD in 1986 at the same university specializing in healthcare ethics. He taught at the Catholic University of America from 1986 until he assumed the newly created Andrew & Beverly Honzel Chair in Applied Health Care Ethics at Providence Health & Services in Portland, Oregon in 1998. He returned to his diocese in 2017 and retired as a pastor in 2022 to pursue to a more contemplative lifestyle as an Oblate of St Benedict of the monastery of St Mary’s in Petersham, MA, and to write. His first book, Striving to be Perfect as the Heavenly Father is Perfect, explores the meaning of Christian maturity and forgiveness. He lives in his home parish with his “buddy,” retriever/lab Allister.
About the Author
Rev John F Tuohey, PhD. is a retired priest of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, ordained in 1981 after completing his studies at the American College of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He successfully defended his PhD in 1986 at the same university specializing in healthcare ethics. He taught at the Catholic University of America from 1986 until he assumed the newly created Andrew & Beverly Honzel Chair in Applied Health Care Ethics at Providence Health & Services in Portland, Oregon in 1998. He returned to his diocese in 2017 and retired as a pastor in 2022 to pursue to a more contemplative lifestyle as an Oblate of St Benedict of the monastery of St Mary’s in Petersham, MA, and to write. His first book, Striving to be Perfect as the Heavenly Father is Perfect, explores the meaning of Christian maturity and forgiveness. He lives in his home parish with his “buddy,” retriever/lab Allister.